Wound Infection: Emerging Challenge in Normal and Diabetic Skin Wounds
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 2649
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wound infection; wound repair; immunotherapy; bugs as drugs; antimicrobial resistance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wound management is a major global challenge posing a significant burden to patients and healthcare systems. The incidence of diabetes continues to increase in the Western world, and the prevalence of acute and chronic wounds related to this condition continues to be a major focus of wound care research. Wound healing is an incredibly complex physiological process, with numerous interdependent factors influencing critical events. More than 50% of chronic wounds exhibit signs and symptoms that are consistent with localized bacterial biofilms underlying severe infections that contribute to tissue destruction, delayed wound-healing, and other serious complications. In many diverse pathologies, such as diabetes mellitus, normal wound healing is impaired, which may lead to severe complications, ranging from ulcers to chronic skin infections. As such, advanced biomedical approaches for effective wound care aim at providing antimicrobial protection to the open wound together with promotion of fast and correct healing, so that fully functional healthy skin can be swiftly restored.
The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight recent advances in the efforts that have been made over the past several years to find interventions in wound-healing properties. This Special Issue may include original research articles and reviews working towards the development of new and effective wound care treatments for diabetic and other skin and soft tissue infections.
Dr. Kajal Gupta
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- acute, chronic, and complex skin wounds
- wound infection
- wound repair
- skin and tissue regeneration
- diabetic skin wound infection
- biofilms
- antibiotic resistance
